What is the best Disney film?

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Well?

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone where mom or dad dies bloodily so the kid has to wreak fearful revenge.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jungle Book, if only for Louis Prima as King Louis singing "I Wanna Be Like You". Phil Harris as Baloo is really good too.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The songs in Peter Pan get me everytime!

― chaki, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Aristocats!

― jel --, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lady & the Tramp", coz it's got the best songs.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Powder"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumbo, if only for Sun Ra's "Pink Elephants on Parade".

― J Blount, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasia.

― Joe, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumbo is my second favorite. I like Alice in Wonderland.

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brave Little Toaster?

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Down And Out In Beverly Hills

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Ned's referring to Bambi.

― cpx, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going with Dumbo, it's so sad. The "Baby Mine" scene, when Dumbo's mother tries to comfort him throught the bars of her cage is the saddest thing I've ever seen.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tron!

― clotion, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's funny, I was just browsing a biography of Walt Disney today at the library. he was a strange character in many ways. he once said that he loved Mickey Mouse more than any woman, but he really hated Donald Duck and half-seriously considered killing him off. he could be a vicious bastard to work for, too. Hayley Mills remembered going on a tour of the studio with Uncle Walt and one of the animators came up and said "Hello Walt," and Disney replied, "Hello, you're fired."

my favorite Disney movie was always 101 Dalmatians, just because it seemed so radically un-Disney-like and cool. Alice in Wonderland is great for similar reasons, and yeah, Dumbo too. I think we can agree that pretty much all live-action Disney films are crap, right?

― Justyn Dillingham, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was reading the last issue of Time Out NY and I saw the most gorgeous man in the world, his picture was like huge, he had like a personal ad or something - but all it did was talk about Tron. It was very strange.

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasia. Although Peter Pan is the first film I remember seeing which makes it quite special. I don't like Alice in Wonderland it is a travesty.

― isadora, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur is on the money.

They are making a Dumbo sequel.

― felicity, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugh, say it ain't so, Felicity.

― Arthur, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I could. It will be very ugh. Dumbo will have a girlfriend.

― felicity, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

def Tron

― Alan T, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what abt the one where a cat and two dogs trek across country to find their family? (is that even disney?)

i loved it age 7

― mark s, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Incredible Journey' - and yes, it is a Disney live action. I think there's an 'Even More Incredible Journey' as well.

When my sister and I were v. little we were taken to see 'Cinderella' - both of us cried our eyes out when Lucifer the evil cat got killed, and we had to be taken home before the end! Puss-wusses!

― Andrew L, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Incredible Journey is second best. First best is Escape From Witch Mountain.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fantasia has a robots AND a dinosaurs section and leopold stokowksi recorded the soundtrack

― mark s, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aladdin is far and away the best of the (more) recent ones. Especially because it spawned an equally excellent Megadrive game which I still mourn to this day.

― Archel, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynne from BB3.

― N., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kaa rules!

trusssssssssst in me, jusssssssssssst in me, ssssssssshut your eyessssssssssss and trussssssssssssst in me, go to ssssssssssleep sssssssssssave and sssssssound knowing I am a round

sssslip into sssilent ssslumber etc. etc.

(was he seducing mowgli or what? you dirty old snake)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i liked Mulan, especially the ghostly grannies/ancestors' musical number, and the bit where the marauding mongols come out of the snow.

nearly all disney films RoXoR. i've only seen two that were rub, which is an amazing hit rate whichever way you look at it.

― rener, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like nearly all of them except Aladdin, Robin Williams should have his feet run over by a lawn mower. The recent one with David Spade in it looked totally awful too.

― Nicole, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary Poppins!!! The scenes on the rooftop with the sweepers and the staircase of thick black smoke and the view over the city and...

(partly live-action with animated penguins does that count?)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

escape from witch mountain is AMAZING!!!!

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What the hell could "The Even More Incredible Journey" be about? A slug and a caterpillar carry a pupating silkworm across the Pacific Ocean?

― Sam, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or maybe the family makes yet another attempt to escape from their clearly psychotic pets.

― Sam, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sssssssssslowly and ssssurely your ssssensesss will cceasssse to ressssssssissssssssst

(great line)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mistake - the sequel to 'Incredible Journey' (erm and it's really called 'Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey' (1993)) is in fact a remake of the original w/ new celebrity voices - eg. Michael J. Fox and Sally Field. Hurrah.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Emperor's New Groove" was surprisingly hilarious. Eartha Kitt made that movie.

I'm trying to think of a Disney movie that I've seen that I disliked. The only ones I can think of that might be candidates ("Atlantis", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame") I've avoided like the plague. "Escape To Witch Mountain" is really, really excellent, as is "Tron", so not all the live-actions ones suck.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Dan - Disney made that movie. Eartha Kitt's voice was merely in it.

― Pete, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HULK SMASH PUNY PTEE!!!

― HULK!, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the hulk never were disney...or was he?

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HULK NOT CARE ABOUT DISNEY! HULK WANT TO SMASH PTEE!! PUNS HURT HULK DEEPLY IN HULK'S TENDER HEART! RAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― HULK!, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god ,there's someone ripping up his shirt again...

it seems the end of this thread is near.

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is far and away my favourite.

― chris, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is great for Terry-Thomas as the snake...

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You are all mad. Snow White & The Seven Dwarves is best because it is the most romantic.

― Austin., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you sap

― chris, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is great for having Prince John suck his thumb and call for mommy. plus maid marian is a total fox.

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That scene in "Sword in the Stone" where Arthur turns into a squirrel and gets a female squirrel to fall in love with him only to return to human form. That scene makes me hurt deep-down.

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For a while it was Aladdin until cynicism set in and I grew weary of Robin "I act like a child in every movie!" Williams (side question: anyone seen "Insomnia"? Very good movie and exception to Robin's rule). Now it's probably Mulan.

― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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Powder is a minor classic. Whatever happened to its director? He seemed to have such a good touch with young actors.

― John Curly, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumbo!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And as for live-action films, Mary Poppins.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Pinnochio by a million miles.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

John Curly wrote: Powder is a minor classic. Whatever happened to its director? He seemed to have such a good touch with young actors.

Good touch? I think you mean bad touch.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Song of the South is the best.

The director of Powder also made Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow the Great Mouse Detective has the voices of Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone! I never knew that as a kid, plus I remember loving the book it was based on.
The Madame Cluck "On Wisconsin" football scene and the puppet show in Robin Hood still reduce me to tears of laughter every time.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember one about a pidgeon teaching a wheelchair-bound boy to walk again, all in live action. I think the heroic pidgeon died in the act, but it's all so long ago.

Was it called 'Pidge'?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Pidge featured a scene of the heroic pigeon being put in a coop where the other pigeons proceded to peck him to death. One of our teachers actually apologized for showing it to us in the sixth grade.

― Tim Masters, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Jungle Book hands down, followed by Alladin.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oliver & Company - in the right mood, unwanted kittens in a box to be given away/left for dead might still make me cry like a baby.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there a wheelchair-bound boy taught to walk again through love for a pigeon at any stage in Pidge?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

BAMBI.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there a wheelchair-bound boy taught to walk again through love for a pigeon at any stage in Pidge?

-- Vic Fluro (vicflur...), June 30th, 2004.

I think something uplifting happened before all the bloodshed.

― Tim Masters, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

a whole thread and no beauty and the beast?

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone ever see hunchback of notre dame? it's creepy . . . there's that scene in notre dame that is probably the most sexually violent a disney movie has ever been.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My opinion upthread remains

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Dumbo

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

SPY KIDS 2

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

20,000 leagues

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

fuckin' Jungle Book by a country mile.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

For me it's all about the music.
Robin Hood - Roger Miller as the Rooster/Minstrel RULES! Oodelally!!
Jungle Book - Bare Necessities! Also The Monkey Song, The Elephant March. Hooray! s
Dumbo - "Baby Mine", "Pink Elephants on Parade", "When I See An Elephant Fly"...it's all there.
Lady & The Tramp - Peggy Lee's "He's A Tramp" is just sooo good.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Pinocchio
Mary Poppins
Monsters, Inc.

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

monsters inc, really?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Monsters Inc is great but I wouldn't class it as Disney, otherwise Spirited Away might be my fave Disney movie.

Dumbo makes me cry like a baby.
Aladdin is way underrated.
Pinocchio's probably the best for technique.

(Finding Nemo's my fave Pixar.)

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

To me it's the best of all the Pixar creations -- most unique premise, most internally consistant style, most transportive. Though I should add

Toy Story

to my list, because it's pretty swanky too. Finding Nemo doesn't make my list because it struck me a -- err, this is a silly critique -- loud and too bombastic. I haven't watched Dumbo since I was 11, and I don't know if I remember Jungle Book at all. Maybe I'll go rent them tonight?

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

The main reason I put Nemo above Monsters Inc is pretty silly too: I think Monsters Inc fucks about with its time-scale and Mike and Sully do stupid things to drive the plot, whereas plotwise I think Nemo's just about perfect.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0292702736.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Apart from Louis Prima singing 'I Wanna Be Like You' I would take just about any Pixar ahead of just about all the real-Disney movies put together.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

as far as traditionally animated features go I'd go with Lilo and Stitch. the early ones are aimed squarely at kids. I enjoy l&s and emperor's new groove more.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

THE BLACK HOLE by far since it sounds like the title of a porno flick. Everything else by DIsney and it's offshoots is pure shit.

― dawg sez, Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

the best one is THE THREE CABALLEROS, a completely demented film from 1943 or so in which there is no plot whatsoever, just a series of surreal quasi-psychedelic episodes about donald duck going to south america and chasing (live-action) girls around for an hour. it's like a disney version of fear and loathing in las vegas!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

i liked monsters inc, but i thought the ending was a real cop-out, and that sorta soured it for me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Mary Poppins

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

that sounds good, J.D.!

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

you should see it and tell me what you think, i've never met anyone else who's seen it!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I've seen it! Zé Carioca (the parrot) is a beloved character in portuguese-language Disney comics. His adventures, written and set in Brazil, rank alongside vintage Barks for me as being amongst the very best Disney comics. They're also (along with the soaps, of course) one of the main places to pick up on brazilian slang, popcult, etc. for portuguese foaks. I think they'd lose a lot in translation, tho. :(

I remember liking the movie well enough, but I was a bit too young to not find the extended song&dance numbers (one featuring Carmen Miranda, right?) a bit tedious. Strongest memory I have is of the end of the movie's title song, where Donald, Carioca and the rooster dude promptly throw away their "one for all, all for one" ethos in favour of chasing skirt.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

the actual correct answer is 'der fuehrer's face.'

also,

When my sister and I were v. little we were taken to see 'Cinderella' - both of us cried our eyes out when Lucifer the evil cat got killed, and we had to be taken home before the end! Puss-wusses!

wait wtf no way does lucifer die in this movie!

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:11 (sixteen years ago)

I really like Pinnochio. Jungle Book has the best songs, though.

― chap, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

Pinocchio by a mile for me. Absolutely beautiful animation and a fantastic script with just the right ammount of darkness

― Number None, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Pinocchio is pretty amazing

― I'm in Miami Subs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

Alice was always my fave as a kid tho

― I'm in Miami Subs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

The Straight Story - David Lynch

― Zeno, Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

^^ ultimate Lynch fan.

― the stain specialist (Viceroy), Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Has The Jungle Book been discussed somewhere? So good!

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 3 June 2016 08:36 (nine years ago)

The new one I mean.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 3 June 2016 08:40 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

Dumbo was on Disney Jr last night and my wife and I were both like "oh we've never seen this whole movie, let's watch it with the boys"

Then the crows showed up.
Holy shit.

― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:04 (nine years ago)

i know right. and i love the rest of that film.

― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:05 (nine years ago)

when i was a kid there used to be a Disney clips show on TV every bank holiday and they used to show the crow song every time. course this was back when the BBC still broadcast The Black and White Minstrel Show so

― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:06 (nine years ago)

Disney's decision to keep Song of the South in the vault is very strange in light of the unquestioned ubiquity of like Dumbo and Peter Pan.

― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:13 (nine years ago)

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